Neil Beckett | Medium-deep ruby, with a natural luster. Already a captivating early bouquet, properly reserved but highly promising: a seamless amalgam of freshly ripe red and black fruit, with authentic, grounding, clean earth and mineral notes, and enchanting floral scents gently wafting on top. Silken on entry, with all the effortless grace and poise we always hope for from Amoureuses, seeming to float in mid-air—suspendu, as Hugh Johnson memorably said of it—indeed to soar, Lark Ascending-like; there is plenty of matière down on the earth below, but the lark glides higher and higher until it slips out of sight. | 96